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Há 4 dias · Associer Olivier Py au Rake’s Progress apparaît rétrospectivement comme une évidence, tant l’opéra de Stravinsky est plein de thèmes et de problématiques chers au nouveau directeur du Festival d’Avignon : le péché et la grâce, la pureté et la corruption, le sexe et la mort.
Há 1 dia · The first painting in the series The Rake's Progress, upon which Stravinsky based his opera of the same name. As Stravinsky became more familiar with English, he developed the idea to write an English-language opera based on a series of paintings by 18th-century artist William Hogarth titled The Rake's Progress.
14 de mai. de 2024 · From 1948 to 1951 Stravinsky worked on his only full-length opera, The Rake’s Progress, a Neoclassical work (with a libretto by W.H. Auden and the American writer Chester Kallman) based on a series of moralistic engravings by the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth.
- Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work revolutionized musical thought and sensibility in the 20th century. His fame rests on a few...
- Igor Stravinsky’s collaborations with Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, including The Firebird (1910), made him known overnight. Other composi...
- Igor Stravinsky’s father, Fyodor, was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and Igor’s mother, Anna, was a talented pianist. Igor...
- Igor Stravinsky studied law and philosophy at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1905. While studying, he showed some of his mus...
- Igor Stravinsky was always in mediocre health—he suffered from tuberculosis in the 1930s and a stroke in 1956—but he continued full-scale creative...
28 de mai. de 2024 · Igor Stravinsky’s brilliantly inventive The Rake’s Progress charts young Tom Rakewell’s journey from an unexpected riches to ruin at the hands of his own naivety and a devilish new friend. One of Stravinsky’s crowning achievements in his pioneering career, the opera is a cynical but humanistic depiction of loss, love and how ...
Há 6 dias · In contrast, the WH Auden-Chester Kallman libretto for The Rake’s Progress was a delight, enhancing Stravinsky’s sharp-edged score ideally. Once again we had, under the direction of Polly Graham, a flamboyant colourfully staged production, aimed very much at attracting a new, younger audience to opera.
9 de mai. de 2024 · The Rake's Progress. Pass saison. 7:30 pm - Opera. On sale 18/06/2024 from 12 pm. 18 19. Booking Start For Pre-opening of Castor et Pollux Avant-premières;
17 de mai. de 2024 · Igor Stravinsky’s brilliantly inventive opera is a masterful blend of farce and tragedy, and a powerful depiction of a young man’s fall. Tom Rakewell leaves his quiet country life and his love Anne behind when the charming and sinister Nick Shadow offers him a bright new start in London.
